D'oh! Missed the Valentine's Day start...I'll hop in now because there's no better day. This morning, I was annoyed to notice that the almond butter I just opened has sugar and palm oil in it. WHY?!?! I have to admit that my biggest temptation comes from ice cream. There is fabulous local ice cream in my area and I love the heaps of fat that it provides...bet it would taste just as good without! Here goes. Cheers.

I'm in it too! Super ticked that I can't find no-sugar salsa or no-sugar peanut/almond butter at Walmart. Dumb. Gonna have to hit up Sprouts or something. I guess since I ate some peanut butter earlier today, tomorrow will be the first official day. Good luck!

Get It Colton! I've done a couple of 2 week challenges. The biggest takeaway for me was the New awareness of how much sugar is in EVERYTHING, and how good eating "clean" feels. My training and racing are sensitive to my diet. I do eat sugar some...but it is very k owingly and often strategic to training and racing. When your body is inundated with simple sugars all day every day (just small amounts in everything), you crave more of the same, your overall appetite increases and you have a very dulled sense of what your body really needs. Once you eliminate sugar for a couple of weeks you will be amazed at how you can actually taste food and crave real whole foods. Sugar also dulls your sense of taste and eliminates your cravings for vitamin and mineral rich foods....instead amps cravings for more sugar.